On May 1, 1959, I took my first job as a computer programmer working for the United States Naval Supply Center, Oakland. After one month’s training, we were thrown on our own and started programming a system that was very advanced for its time, being the first completely transistorized commercially available computer. The computer which [...]
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My pal Colonel So-and-so
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